Getting to Know Them: events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=jazxlzlab&oeidk=a07eiwzrtn863ca604d Race & the Priesthood: www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/race-and-the-priesthood?lang=eng Getting to Know Them topics: Joseph Smith Brigham Young John Taylor Wilford Woodruff Hyrum Smith Porter Rockwell Benjamin F Johnson George Q Cannon WW Phelps Ephraim Hanks Newell K and Elizabeth Ann Whitney Parley P Pratt Emma Smith Eliza R Snow Mary Fielding Smith Willard Richards Orson Hyde Heber J Grant Heber C. Kimball Moroni The Mormon Battalion Pioneer Rescuers Martin & Willie Handcart Companies Charles C Rich Articles of Faith and Official Declarations 1 & 2 Elder L. Tom Perry said the Articles of Faith teach “the essential doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ and are among the most important and certainly the most concise statements of doctrine in the Church”. Understanding the history behind the two revelations known as Official Declarations 1 & 2 might help us understand why the previous Church policies were altered, and help strengthen or testimonies today of living prophets, seers, and revelators.